A bona fide magician would be, to me, exponentially more impressive than Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds of the modern world, defining the laws of the world in which we live. However, this magician can break them.
The magician's first tricks, pulling a rabbit out of a hat and making a coin disappear, appear to either demonstrate quantum teleportation or the ability to create and destroy matter. The former is not quite as impressive, as modern scientists hope to use quantum teleportation on atoms and protons within the decade, but it is still something Einstein never thought possible. Even modern scientist are only attempting quantum teleportation on a minuscule scale, because they say it is too dangerous to try on living things. If this magician has indeed teleported a rabbit into his hat, he is years ahead of modern science at the least, and is regularly performing acts that Einstein never considered achievable.
If the magician is not practicing quantum teleportation, but indeed has the godlike abilites to create matter from nothing and completely destroy matter, this makes him drastically more impressive than Albert Einstein. In fact, this makes him the most impressive man ever to live, with the possible exception of Jesus. The law of Conservation of Matter is one of the most important and basic laws that exist in our world. This magician is indeed “conjuring the bunny out of the ether”, meaning he is disregarding this law entirely. This fact alone could make him the most powerful man in the world.
In addition to this, all Einstein did was theorize and postulate. This is not to say his theories were unimpressive, but he merely thought of things, he never really demonstrated them in the field. He was famous for coming up with thought experiments, such as the Schrödinger Equation, but these only served to provide “what if?” scenarios, never really proving anything. Even his most well known equation, E=MC2, only laid the groundwork for the idea of a nuclear bomb, it did not directly invent it. This magician has not only discovered things that disprove Einstein's theories, but can and does demonstrate them again and again without fail.
Some may say that a magician is merely an entertainer, a joke, a person to be laughed at. What can he ever offer to society? But just because a person's day job is unimpressive does not mean that person cannot do impressive things. Einstein himself worked as a patent clerk in Swittzerland for seven years. What could a patent clerk ever offer to society? They merely approve other people's brilliant inventions. Yet Einstein went on to become one of the most influential physicists ever. Just because this man is a magician now does not rule out the possibility he will go on to do even more impressive things than creating matter from nothing. All things considered, a magician who can defy the basic laws of physics is much more impressive than a man who wrote most of those laws.
